Satori LP

Five parts, one continuous idea, cut in two days flat: that's Satori, the album that turned Flower Travellin' Band into a landmark of Japanese psych-hard rock. Hideki Ishima handles guitar, Joe Yamanaka vocals and harmonica, Jun Kozuki bass, and Joji Wada drums, with founder Yuya Uchida producing rather than performing in the lineup. The band ran Eastern scales through Sabbath-weight riffs, later stripping "Satori Part III" down into "Hiroshima" for their next record. Rolling Stone Japan still counts it among the country's 100 greatest rock albums, and Takashi Miike used its music throughout his 2002 film Deadly Outlaw: Rekka.